UWI law student Alexia Trim was described as ambitious, intelligent, humble, creative, resilient, loyal, kind, and many other positive descriptors at her funeral at St Francis of Assisi RC Church in Belmont on November 15.

Trim, 23, died in Colombia, where she had been receiving medical treatment on October 22, one day before she was due to collect her Bachelor of Laws degree with first-class honours at UWI’s St Augustine. She had a condition known as arteriovenous malformation, an abnormal tangle of blood vessels that could cause bleeding in the brain.

During the eulogy, written by her mother, Marsha Trim, and read by two of her friends, Marsha spoke about the joys of her birth and the development of a daughter who “handled herself with grace and dignity.”